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To earnestly want or long for something is what can be described as desire. Unless you live an inert life, where you aren’t guided by any particular aspiration or human/material longing, you are likely to be pestered with desires every off and on. From name to fame to material goods and more, human desires are almost unlimited. The biggest hitch about desires is that they often feed upon themselves and no matter what you do to satiate your wants; the list of desires always continues to expand. Here is an amazing list of famous long quotations and sayings to help you delve deep into the subject.

Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Conduct Knowledge
Plato
Thomas Merton

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Life Men Being Yourself Belief
Thomas Merton
Laurence Sterne

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Knowledge
Laurence Sterne
Anne Boleyn

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

World
Anne Boleyn
Jordan Peele

Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that.

Racism World
Jordan Peele
Luis Suarez

All I can say is that I have arrived with the desire to be a success at Barca, that I am hungry to win titles.

Success
Luis Suarez
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Robert Lewandowski

I motivate myself by the desire to win more trophies.

Robert Lewandowski
Thomas Moore

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Friendship Friendship Love Affection
Thomas Moore
Nicole Kidman

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Future Happiness
Nicole Kidman
Bhagat Singh

I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

Bhagat Singh
Jessica Chastain

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

Ability Women
Jessica Chastain
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Men Attitude Purpose Confidential
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Neil Armstrong

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Mystics & Mysticism
Neil Armstrong
Salvador Dali

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Accomplishment Achievement Age Cooking
Salvador Dali
Napolean Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Achievement Success Success
Napolean Hill
Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Teachers
Horace Mann
Adolf Hitler

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Age Guts Revolt Revolution
Adolf Hitler
Ayn Rand

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Motivation
Ayn Rand
Ilhan Omar

Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other.

Help
Ilhan Omar
Coco Chanel

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Truth
Coco Chanel
Helen Rowland

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

Men Pleasure Thinking Emotions
Helen Rowland
Tracee Ellis Ross

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.

Nature
Tracee Ellis Ross
Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Baby Children’s Day Adversity Peace
Thomas Paine
Kim Jong-un

Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.

People Struggles Self-Reliance
Kim Jong-un
Andrew Cuomo

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Death Fear
Andrew Cuomo
Matt Smith

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Greatness Sacrifice
Matt Smith
Charles Kingsley

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Opportunities Blood Dogs Thinking
Charles Kingsley
Charlie Chaplin

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Life
Charlie Chaplin
Dennis Rodman

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Dennis Rodman
Brendan Fraser

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Brendan Fraser
Helen Rowland

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Men Creativity World Genetics
Helen Rowland
Christian Bale

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

Attention
Christian Bale
Confucius

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius
Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Humbleness Greatness
Saint Augustine
George Carlin

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Zeal People Thinking Time
George Carlin
Julius Caesar

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Men
Julius Caesar
Michelle Williams

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Self-Reliance Parents
Michelle Williams
George Carlin

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Opinion Aggravation Intention Wish
George Carlin
C. S. Lewis

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Experience World
C. S. Lewis
Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love
Robert Frost
Lana Del Rey

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

Lana Del Rey
Cameron Diaz

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

Family Love Short Love Affection
Cameron Diaz
Kevin Costner

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Kevin Costner
Thomas Mann

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

People Reason Predestination Greed
Thomas Mann
Christopher Columbus

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Christopher Columbus

The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.

Responsibility Women World
Emily Ratajkowski
Alexander Hamilton

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Government
Alexander Hamilton
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The love that exists between wife and husband is infatuation. The love that exists among friends and relations is attachment. The love towards material objects is desire. Love in totality, directed towards God is known as devotion.

Friendship Love Relationship Connection
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Wallace Stevens

The point of vision and desire are the same.

Vision
Wallace Stevens
Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Accountability Comparisons Responsibility Differences
Charles Kingsley
Christopher Columbus

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Christopher Columbus
Alexander the Great

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Nature Victory World
Alexander the Great
Christian Bale

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

People Responsibility
Christian Bale
George Washington Carver

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Painting Music Knowledge
George Washington Carver
Napolean Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Achievement Hope
Napolean Hill
Mark Wahlberg

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

Movies
Mark Wahlberg
Tulsi Gabbard

Each of us wants to be free. But if we want to be free, we also need to appreciate that others also desire the same thing.

Tulsi Gabbard

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

Success
Kelsey Grammer
Zig Ziglar

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Obstacles Money Trust
Zig Ziglar
Elisabeth Shue

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

Politics Power Society
Elisabeth Shue
Kangana Ranaut

I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.

Good Confidence
Kangana Ranaut
George Washington

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Peace Wars
George Washington
Jeanie Buss

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

Family
Jeanie Buss
Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Teachers
Horace Mann
Lisa Bonet

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

Business
Lisa Bonet
Walt Whitman

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Walt Whitman
D. H. Lawrence

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Love Living
D. H. Lawrence
Sylvester Stallone

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Romance Art
Sylvester Stallone
Adam Smith

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Greatness
Adam Smith
Napolean Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Action
Napolean Hill
Wallace Stevens

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Reason Nothing
Wallace Stevens
Wilson Mizner

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Greatness
Wilson Mizner
Mitt Romney

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Success
Mitt Romney
William Butler Yeats

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Wives
William Butler Yeats
William Osler

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Animals Medicine
William Osler
Alan Rickman

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Success
Alan Rickman
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Faith
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Bill Murray

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

Bill Murray
Stevie Wonder

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.

People
Stevie Wonder
John Adams

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Heart
John Adams
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Courage
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Carla Gugino

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

Carla Gugino
Grimes

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

Music
Grimes
Brian Tracy

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Opportunities
Brian Tracy
Leonardo da Vinci

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Good Knowledge
Leonardo da Vinci
Demi Moore

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

Nothing Value
Demi Moore
Epictetus

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Enjoyment Freedom
Epictetus
Eric Hoffer

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

Eric Hoffer
George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Life Heart
George Bernard Shaw

When Larry and Sergey founded Google Search, one of the things that struck me is that it was available for everyone to use. We deeply desire our services to work for everyone. And that inherently means we have to work with partners. That is the thesis underlying everything we do.

Work
Sundar Pichai
Albert Camus

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Hope
Albert Camus
Emily Ratajkowski

It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?

Men Women
Emily Ratajkowski
Alexandra Daddario

I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, because I'm insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.

People
Alexandra Daddario
Mark Zuckerberg

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

People
Mark Zuckerberg
Marcel Proust

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Things
Marcel Proust
Hermann Hesse

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

People Literature
Hermann Hesse
Susan Wojcicki

I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

People Things
Susan Wojcicki
Patrick Swayze

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

Love Fear
Patrick Swayze
Eric Clapton

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Eric Clapton